Tom’s Les Misérables won three Oscars and was nominated for five others,
including Best Picture.

It grossed £304million at the box office and also allowed actors including RUSSELL
CROWE and ANNE HATHAWAY to show off their singing talents.

Composer ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER has always been keen to see the show,
based on poems by TS ELIOT, made into a film.

However, he does accept audiences might struggle to get their heads around
humans dressed up as eccentric cats — an issue shared ahead of the stage
version’s West End debut in 1981. He admitted to fearing the crowd would be
left cold by the ground-breaking show, saying: “We never knew whether the
public was going to love Cats until the moment we saw a cat go on stage. It
could have been the most terrible moment in musical theatre.